Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Since our trip to Nashville and my running partner's knee injury, I haven't been working out as much as I should. I lost interest. I did the HoBOOken 5k with my running buddy and my good friend Jen who came down for the 5k.

I had the best costume I've ever put together - not super original, but I loved the outfit, especially the spiffy socks with little capes on the back - thank you Amazon!!

Then I was always running (hehe) out of time to run, but in the past few weeks I've been trying. With my trip to Costa Rica and wedding approaching, I know it won't be long before I have to squeeze into a bathing suit and also a wedding dress, which I picked out this weekend!

The gorgeous hotel we're staying at in Costa Rica's pool which is directly in front of the beach!

I've been slowly getting back on track the last 3 weeks. I've been running about 30 minutes outside 3-4 days a week, teaching spin 2 days a week as well as bootcamp once a week and adding in sessions at Local Barre once a week. I've also been trying to cook healthy, making a ton of soups to take to work, as well as serving lots of veggies for dinner and trying to cut back on the PSL's from Starbucks. *sigh*

Purple sweet potatoes, carrots and organic chicken from the Farmer's Market in Hoboken.

New Workout
I also tried a new workout last night at Sky Club in Hoboken, the Monday kickboxing, it was great. My hands still shaking from hitting the bags and the cardio and bootcamp style exercises definitely upped the workout.

Tough Tuesday Workout
I've been very bad about posting the Tuesday workouts and I'll admit, last week no one wanted to come to the gym, it's been getting cold in Hoboken and getting up at 6am doesn't sound all that great.

However, this morning as luck would have it, I rolled out of bed, put on my winter gear and expected maybe 2 for my 6am class but we had twice that with 5 showing up. We did a pretty good workout this morning.

HIIT Style Workout

What you need: mat, bench, risers, one set handweights, one bar with weights.

Warmup: Run, Jacks, Jump Rope, squats and lunges and stretches.

Workout
8 rounds 20 sec on 10 off (in between the sets of 8, one minute jump rope (JR))

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Young nonprofit pro,saving the world a charity at a time. I'm AFAA & Spin cert'd and a foodie. I have 2 blogs. Pasta & Powersquats for fitness and foodie finds, inc spinning profiles (I love theme) and workouts from SkyClub where I teach. A weekend warrior, I attempt triathlons and half marathons and I look forward to sharing my triumphs and tribulations. I'm trying to lead a healthy lifestyle so I'll share my recipe finds. On Hoboken Gal Helps: I fell in love with nonprofit work after working at the S.C. Coalition Against Domestic Violence and haven't looked back. That was 2004 and since I've developed a 'jack of all trades' approach that includes grant writing, fundraising, event planning, individual giving, public relations and social media. I am currently working in NYC and volunteering at the Hoboken Homeless Shelter, a great local organization. Feel free to contact me at karomans@gmail.com. I live in 'boken with my better half and can be found running pier A and getting a refill at Empire before meetings.